On the thermal electron balance in Titan’s sunlit upper atmosphere
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Department of Physics, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK b Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0092, USA c School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China e Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, Université Reims Champagne-Ardenne, UMR 7331, Reims 51687, France Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA h Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), UJF-Grenoble/CNRS-INSU, UMR 5274, Grenoble F-38041, France
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تاریخ انتشار 2013